John Douglass Wallop, 65, who wrote The Year the Yankees...

April 6, 1985

OXFORD, MD. — John Douglass Wallop, 65, who wrote The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, the novel on which the musical and movie Damn Yankees were based, died Tuesday. Wallop's story of a fan who sells his soul to the devil so the Washington Senators can win the pennant was published in 1954 and made into the musical in 1955.